The Mayor of Brooklyn Center, the Minneapolis suburb where Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a police officer on Sunday, is clearly trying to demonstrate that he’s actively working to “do something” to appease the crowds of rioters who have taken to the streets every night since then. In addition to sheparding through preparations to charge the officer in the shooting in a matter of days, Mayor Mike Elliott held a press conference yesterday where he suggested that some “reforms” to police protocols might be in order. Unfortunately, one of his first suggestions was to say that perhaps police don’t really need to be armed when they’re on traffic duty. This statement will no doubt draw rave reviews from the Abolish the Police crowd, but it’s going to leave his police force feeling pretty much abandoned. (Washington Examiner)

The mayor of the Minnesota town where a 20-year-old black man was recently shot and killed while in police custody says he doesn’t believe police always need to carry weapons.

“I don’t believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons every time they’re making a traffic stop,” Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mayor Mike Elliott said during a press conference Tuesday in response to the shooting death of Daunte Wright on Sunday.

Body camera footage shows a struggle between Wright and police officers as he is being arrested, and Wright at one point attempts to flee in his car as an officer yells, “Taser! Taser!” moments before Wright is shot with a handgun.

The mayor of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, suggests officers don't need to be armed for every traffic stop or "engaged in situations that don't necessarily call for weapons."

"I don't believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons every time they're making a traffic stop." pic.twitter.com/cl9H5nYbil

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 13, 2021